Difference between Peaceful and Irenic

PEACEFUL vs IRENIC: ADJECTIVE

(of groups) not violent or disorderly
Peacefully resistant in response to injustice
Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil: : calm.
Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable.
Not involving violence or employing force.
Not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable.
Not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
Inclined to peace
Motionless and calm
Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil

Full of, possessing, or enjoying peace; not in a state of war, commotion, or disquiet; quiet; undisturbed: as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country.
Pacific; mild; calm: as, a peaceful temper.
Synonyms Peaceable, etc. (see pacific), tranquil, serene.

Promoting or fitted to promote peace; peaceful; pacific: chiefly used in theology. See irenicon and irenics.

Peace loving, At peace, Halcyon, Passive, Pacific, Pacifistic, Irenic, Pacifist, Undisturbed, Orderly, Calm, Serene, Tranquil, Nonviolent, Peaceable

Deistic, Whiggish, Theological, Reverent, Dialogical, Openhearted, Erudite, Pious, Polemical, Pietistic, Rationalistic, Universalistic, Undogmatic, Tranquil, Peaceful

Law abiding, At peace, Halcyon, Passive, Pacific, Pacifistic, Irenic, Pacifist, Undisturbed, Orderly, Calm, Serene, Tranquil, Nonviolent, Peaceable

Deistic, Whiggish, Theological, Reverent, Dialogical, Openhearted, Erudite, Pious, Polemical, Pietistic, Rationalistic, Universalistic, Undogmatic, Tranquil, Peaceful

Enjoy more peaceful moments from naptime to nighttime.
The chances of a peaceful settlement seem bleak.
His daughter told me he looked so peaceful.
Peaceful Pines Assisted Living Center in Rapid City.
Drivers are plowing into crowds of peaceful protesters.
Check out the convenient, peaceful and gated location.
It is in a peaceful lodge in a secluded and peaceful environment.
At the end of the course you will be trained as both a Peaceful Kids and a Peaceful Parents facilitator.
Nothing keeps a peaceful protest peaceful like a line of rifles with fixed bayonets.
In fact, disproportionate police force is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful.

There can be no doubt as to the positive, irenic, and constructive intentions of the Decree as a whole.
Judaism, too, cannot rest content with offering irenic visions of a redeemed future, but must contend meaningfully with wrongdoing today.
They preached in irenic terms, appealing to the Bible rather than the symbolic books of the Reformation.
The sample reveals a bias in the historical and anthropological record, which tends to overlook irenic, less dominant tribes.
More than a million images were seized during the six-month Operation Irenic, including pictures of infants being raped, abused and tortured.
Without rancor and in irenic fashion, Barry answers, Yes, the Servant did rise from the dead.
The authors are formally polite, but the debate is not always irenic.
Cragg emphasized interreligious dialogue, and his approach was irenic.